Source: installation-guide Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
In the installation guide ch06s04 the process of loading firmware is described. Now, it mentions that one posibility is including the firmware in a second media or partition, but by looking at the contents of the installer image one can see that there's a folder named /firmware in there, which contains the firmware-linux-free package. If a user loads the image onto a USB stick, that user could potentially just put any additional formware packages into that folder and the system should then just use those. Looking at the unofficial build of the iso from here: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/ it looks like that all that they've really done. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.9 APT prefers oldstable-updates APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-0.bpo.3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
